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I’ve always been told by my (hilariously stupid and useless) diabetes specialists that my daily units of insulin should be roughly the same as my weight in kg. I admit, in my case, it seems they may have actually gotten something right. I take around 50 units a day, and my weight is slightly more than that. Now, it’s really messing with my mind to imagine The Useless Ones actually getting something right, so I need to know: could they REALLY have told me something somewhat accurate?
Oh, and hi all. I’m a newbie.
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Hmmm… let’s see… I’m 68kg, and average about 32 units/day.
Oh well, such is life out here at the far end of the bell curve
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At diagnostic kick-off, the general formula used to calculate one’s total daily dose is weight(kg) x 0,55 and to adapt the dose according to your insulinic sensitivity. Nowadays I nearly abide by this (65kg, +/- 38 U), but at diagnosis and following years I consistently used 52 U, while weight increased from under 60kg to early 70s. Maybe your specialists hail from a planet where gravity isn’t as attractive as here on earth?
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@jodiabetic – welcome to Shoot Up, draw up a chair and join in the misery and unending despond!
I weigh about 82kg and I shoot up about 70u a day. From the above it sounds like a rough reckoner rather than anything super-accurate…
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Aha! I knew they couldn’t be right! Thanks for the answers and welcomes, guys.
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Not quite sure how the whole weight/units malarky works, checked out Novomix’s web site and they reckon between 1 and 0.5 u/kg per day. I’m 66kg and currently take between 20 and 25 units. Got no idea what my resistance level is, my pancreas only upped and left about 5 months ago.
By the way, if my fave ABBA song is sos, my fave C&W song has gotta be Islets in the Stream (sorry!!)
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@savagebiker650 – Islets in the Stream! Ha ha ha!
Has you pancreas completely given up the ghost? I was diagnosed quite early in my pancreas’ destruction, so I injected very small amounts to begin with. My pancreas would then produce a bit less insulin and I would adjust all my levels; it would then tail off a bit more and I would adjust all my levels again and so on and so on and so on. It took about 6-8 months to tail off completely, at which point I was going potty and wishing my stupid pancreas would just stop working completely so I could get on with it!
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@annette – I understand the honeymoon period to be when you first go on insulin and some of the load is taken off your failing pancreas, as a result it breathes a sign of relief (figuratively) and starts producing its own more effectively for a little while. I think, as with anything else diabetes, each person’s experience will ;
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Think mine has given up totally, for the first couple of months I’d get some quite spectacular lows as I think my pancreas was trying its best to kick out a bit of insulin and I’d got the dose a bit wrong. One low was a doozy as I thought it was a particularly hot chinese i was eating causing me to sweat loads, cue the shakes etc and a 1.8! Not bettered that one yet(strangely enough). I seem to have stabilised at the moment but as I’m new to all this so things may change. Taking it all one day at a time and trying to think of all the daft places I can shoot up, see how many people get upset (sad game, but fun if you’re me ha ha).
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This idea’s a new one on me, none of my DSNs or doctors has ever mentioned a link between weight and insulin dosage. Truth to tell it would probably be a bit scary, ‘cos despite my (excessive) weight, I would be shooting up far to little insulin to make any difference to my body’s refusenik T2ishness. Shall we say that it would take two @Annette to make one Teloz…
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Ha, I’m glad I joined here, nice to see it’s not just me that thinks of lows as targets to be beaten
Oddly, I think my lowest is a 1.8 too!On topic, I’ve never been told anything about a weight/dosage link! Or if I was I found it unhelpful and ignored it from the start
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The chief aim of calculating a total daily dose by means of weight is to get an idea of what your basal dose should be, which is supposed to be round about 50% of your daily total; none of these calculated doses are carved in stone – there’s no commandment stating “Thou shalt be banished from the diabetic fratty sorority/ sorry fraternity…” if your requirements exceed/fall short of it.
Off topic, I’ve caught many a sub-2 fish…but usually that is after guzzling glucose – I’m not capable of handling a meter before taking antidote, otherwise I could have bragged with even tinier plankton
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